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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the process of birthing called in the community?
(a) The Duty.
(b) The Happening.
(c) The Blessed Event.
(d) The Task.

2. At what meal does Claire first realize that every other worker is taking a pill besides her?
(a) Evening Snack.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Lunch.
(d) Dinner.

3. What is the name of the male Nurturer's daughter?
(a) Lily.
(b) Alice.
(c) Stephanie.
(d) Peggy.

4. During what times does Claire take her walks in order to run into the male Nurturer with her son in tow?
(a) At sunrise and at sunset.
(b) During lunch and after the evening meal.
(c) Before breakfast and after the evening meal.
(d) After breakfast and before the evening meal.

5. What age group is the only group to be given their assignments on the second day of the Ceremony?
(a) Twelves.
(b) Tens.
(c) Elevens.
(d) Nines.

6. Why do the children in the schoolyard gaze curiously at Claire when she is on her way to the Fish Hatchery?
(a) She is riding a tandem bicycle with no one in the second seat.
(b) She is riding a bicycle and everyone else walks.
(c) She is walking and everyone else rides bicycles.
(d) She is riding a scooter and everyone else drives cars.

7. What adjective does the receptionist at the Nurturing Center use to describe Sophia?
(a) Confident.
(b) Strident.
(c) Well-behaved.
(d) Diligent.

8. Claire decides that if someone in authority tries to force her to take pills, she will do what before she gives up the love she feels for her son?
(a) Banish herself.
(b) Die.
(c) Escape.
(d) Kill someone.

9. What is the reason that the boat workers are forced to wait one full day after the boat's arrival in order to unload the community's supplies?
(a) They must wait for the community's trash to be delivered to the boat before they can leave.
(b) They have arrived on Ceremony Day and every community member is busy.
(c) They have to wait for gasoline to be delivered.
(d) They have arrived on Ceremony Day and the children of the boat workers always participate in the events.

10. What is the name of the male Nurturer's son?
(a) Jonas.
(b) Paul.
(c) Stan.
(d) Christopher.

11. When Claire picks up the biology posters from the school, she meets a former teacher of hers. What subject does this woman teach?
(a) Science.
(b) Language.
(c) Math.
(d) Home Economics.

12. What does the male Nurturer tell Claire would happen if he were to apply for a variance to try to adopt Claire's son?
(a) He would have to create a law allowing such a variance.
(b) His wife would apply for an annulment.
(c) He would be exiled from the community.
(d) He would have to add another room to his dwelling.

13. What reason does Sophia give Claire for the Nurturing Center staff not wearing nametags?
(a) She says the children would grab at them.
(b) She says the children are too young to read.
(c) She says the children are not allowed to know the workers' names.
(d) She says the pins used to affix the nametags could hurt the children.

14. In the recurring dreams Claire has in which she is wearing a leather mask, she always weeps when what event occurs?
(a) Someone kills her son.
(b) Someone takes her son away from her.
(c) Someone puts her son in her arms.
(d) When she realizes she is no longer pregnant.

15. What reason does Claire give for her son's lack of distress upon her departure?
(a) He knows she will be back.
(b) He has not formed attachments to anyone.
(c) He knows his mother would never leave him permanently.
(d) He loves the male Nurturer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Claire is at lunch and is surprised at her table mate's comment that going into labor causes pain, what word does she tell her table mate had been used within her instruction instead?

2. What kind of noise is made that summons everyone at the Fish Hatchery to the evening meal?

3. Though citizens of the community make their way around using only bicycles, large deliveries are transported by what type of vehicle?

4. What is a behavior that Claire's son does NOT display during naptime at the Nurturing Center?

5. When Claire finds herself trying to analyze her own feelings for the very first time, what adjective does she use to describe the one emotion she has always felt?

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